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Informal carer—number of hours of care provided

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term498127
Registration status:Help on this term

Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013

Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

Definition:Help on this termThe number of hours of physical needs, help, or comfort were actually provided by an informal carer.

Object Class attributes

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Object class:Informal carer
Definition:Help on this term

An informal carer includes any person, such as a family member, friend or neighbour, who is giving regular, ongoing assistance to another person without payment for the care given.

Context:Help on this term

Care and support networks where the carers are unpaid (other than pension or benefit) play a critical role in community services provision, especially in caring for frail aged and younger people with disability within the community.

Information about informal carers is therefore of fundamental importance in assessing the ongoing needs of clients and their carers, and in service planning. The presence of an informal carer is often a key indicator of a person's ability to remain at home, especially if the person requires assistance. The absence of an informal carer, where a vulnerable client lives alone, is an indicator of client risk. Information on client living arrangements and informal carer availability provides an indicator of the potential in-home support and the extent to which the burden of care is absorbed by the informal caring system.

The stability or otherwise of the informal carer's availability may be significant in the capacity of the client continuing to remain at home.

Existing carer definitions (e.g. for purposes of establishing eligibility for Domiciliary Nursing Care Benefits (DNCB/Carer Allowance; Carer's Pension/Carer Payment) definitions used in ABS population, surveys of disability, ageing and carers) vary in context and purpose.

Specialisation of:Help on this termService/care provider

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The definition excludes formal care services such as homecare, care provided by volunteers or foster care that is arranged by formal services. It also excludes unregistered child carers who are receiving payment for their services. Where a potential carer is not prepared to undertake the caring role, the carer is considered to be not available.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Origin:Help on this term

Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services 1998. Home and Community Care (HACC) data dictionary version 1.0: Home and Community Care Program National Minimum Data Set. Cat. no. AIHW 3600. Canberra: AIHW.

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Number of hours of care provided
Definition:Help on this termThe number of hours of physical needs, help, or comfort were actually provided.
Property group:Help on this termService provision event

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Informal carer—number of hours of care provided, total hours NNNNN

        Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013

        Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

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